different between lumberjack vs redneck

English

Etymology

lumber +? jack

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?l?m.b?.d?æk/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?l?m.b?.d?æk/

Noun

lumberjack (plural lumberjacks)

1. A person whose work is to fell trees.
2. A lumberjacket.

Synonyms

• (a person who fells trees): faller, feller, logger, lumberman, woodcutter

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Verb

lumberjack (third-person singular simple present lumberjacks, present participle lumberjacking, simple past and past participle lumberjacked)

1. (transitive) To work as a lumberjack, cutting down trees.

See also

• lumbermill

English

Etymology

Compound of red +? neck. Compare rooinek.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???dn?k/

Noun

redneck (plural rednecks)

1. (slang, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A poor, rural, usually white and male, person from the Southern United States or parts of the Midwest and northeast, especially one who is unsophisticated and backward; sometimes with additional connotations of being bigoted.
2. (historical, slang, US) Any of the miners who wore red bandanas for identification during the West Virginia mine war of 1921.
3. (historical, slang, US) A member of a certain Baltimore street gang, active in 1859.
4. (Britain, archaic, 19th and 20th centuries) A Roman Catholic.

Synonyms

• bogan (Australia), cracker, hick, hillbilly, peckerwood, white trash

Derived terms

• redneckish
• redneckism
• rednecky

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